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Ashley Blooms is the debut author of EVERY BONE A PRAYER–out now from Sourcebooks–about a young girl who, in trying to learn more about her secret empathic ability, becomes entangled in her Appalachian community’s dark past. She must try to help heal their wounds–and her own–in order to break generational cycles of abuse.
Born and raised in Cutshin, Kentucky, Blooms received her MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. Her short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Oxford American. She’s been awarded scholarships from the Clarion Writer’s Workshop and Appalachian Writer’s Workshop, served as fiction editor for the Yalobusha Review, and worked as an editorial intern and first reader for Tor.com.
She currently lives in Kentucky with her partner and dog, where she is at work on a second standalone novel.